[Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Poole Borough.

Poole (Dorset, England). Borough Council.

Date:: 1950

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Credit: [Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Poole Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children The N.S.P.C.C. has a full-time Inspector for the Poole and East Dorset area. The Health Department has always found the Society’s Inspector very ready to co-operate in cases of medical neglect, and most helpful in following up such cases, and in dealing with difficult and careless parents. The Report of the Inspector of the cases dealt with by the N.S.P.C.C. during 1950 in Poole is as follows :— Cases: Neglect . 76 Children concerned 215 Ill-treatment. 8 »# l» 17 Advice Sought 33 *♦ M 59 *» Moral danger 1 »« » » 2 Total 118 293 There were no prosecutions during the year. Nursing Homes In 1927 the supervision of Nursing Homes was delegated by the Dorset Country Council to the Poole Council. In 1949 this delega¬ tion was cancelled and the Dorset County Council resumed its duties in respect of Nursing Homes. At the end of 1950 there were on the register five Nursing Homes.